The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible.
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.